Molding-machine.



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HENRY TSCHERNING, FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR. T0 ARCADE MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY TSGHERNING, a citizen of the United States, residing at F reeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Molding-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved molding lnachine which is fully described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device; Fig. 2 is a central cross section through the head; Fig. 3 is a view of the parts shown in Fig. 2 at right angles to that'view, the head-casing being shown in section and the remaining parts in elevation; Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the rapper and the mold-supporting device; Fig. 5 is a perspective view ofthe headstop showing its method of adjustment; Fig. 6 is a plan of the flask-guide; Fig. 7 is a section through the rapper-valve; Fig. 8 is a section through the rapper-cylinder; and Fig. 9 is a central longitudinal section through the platform and cope-support showing the forward and operative posi tion of the latter.

Referring to the drawings, 9 indicates generally a base which is provided with suitable wheels whereby it. may readily be transported from place to place, and this base carries a platform composed of two bars 10 extending from front to back and adapted to receive a flask which, when placed thereon, is positioned by a flask-guide 11 adjustable from front to back and also laterally. This guide has lugs 12 which engage the rear of the flask and ahooded end 13 to engage one side of the flask, so that when placed upon the bars 10 and pushed into position against the flask-guide, the flask will be properly positioned. Journaled upon a shaft 14: are upwardly extending arms 15 which support a head-frame 16 and the same can be swung forward and back from a position directly over the position of the flask, in which case the arms 15 .are vertical, to a rearward position, where 50 it contacts with adjustable head-stops 17 clamped on bars 18 which extend diagonally upward and backward from the base. The head-stops are supported as shown. in Fig. 5 and adjustable through clamps 19 in an obvious manner, the purpose being to Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 11, 19141.

Application filed November 8 1911. Serial No. 659,077.

swing the head back far enough to give convcnient space for working upon the flask but not unduly far back so as to cause unnecessary labor in returning it to operative :position. The head-frame 16 has journaled in it, and extending from side to side, a rock-shaft 2O oscillatable by means of a handle 21 counterweightedby a weight 22. The shaft 20 carries a segmental pinion 23 in mesh with a segmental pinion 241 on a countershaft 25 which is connected to the shaft 20 by links 26 pivoted mutually upon the shaft 20 and countershaft 25, so that the countershaft may swing from the position shown in solid, to that shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. 'The segmental pinion 2 1 is formed integral with an arm 27 .bifurcated at its lower end to form ends 28 which are pivotally connected to the squeezer-plate 29 which is provided with upwardly extending pins 30 running in guides 31 on the head-frame 16. The result of this construction is that as the handle 21 is swung forward, the pinions 23 and 2-1 will rotate, forcing the countershaft 25 downward, and simultaneously causing the arm 27 to take the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The squeezer-plate 29 is thus forced downward, moving very slowly at its lower limit of movement, and with a very powerful leverage. The entire squeezerhead 16 is made adjustable on the upper ends of the arms 15 so that this powerful movement will occur just at the right position to squeeze the contents of the flask.

The present device is designed to be used with a pattern-plate of the type having half the pattern in relief on each side, so that by placing the plate between the cope and drag, filling cope and drag with sand and squeezing the whole, the two halves of the mold are made at one operation. In the use of the machine, the pattern-plate is placed in position'between the two halves of the flask, which may be and preferably is a snap-flask, and the flask is placed on the bars 10 with the drag up, the head being swung back out of the way. The drag is first filled with sand in the usual mannerthat is, by riddling sand onto the pattern-plate to make a sufficient layer, doing whatever tucking in deep parts of the pattern may be necessary, by hand, then shoveling the rest of the sand into place, striking off, and putting the follower-board in position. The flask is then turned over so that the follower-board rests on the bars 10 and the empty cope is up. The copeis then filled with sand in the same manner and a second followerboard is placed upon it. the squeezer-plate brought down by manipulation of the handle, it being understood attern late removed whichlbrings intoo eration the rapping; mechanism, which will now be described.

Mounted between the bars 10 is a pneumatic rapper-cylinder 32' containing a piss ton The cylinder receives compressed air from a pipe 34 communicating'with two intake ports 35 and 36, one for each end of the cylinder. The piston. is provided with annular grooves 37 and 38 at its twoends, communicating hy ports 39 and 40 cut in the materialof the piston, with spaces at its "two ends, and? the cylinder is provided with: a central annular groove 41 communicating withthe exhaust-port 42. When air is admitted to the intake-ports it will enter one orthe other of the annular grooves 37 or 38, as the case may be, passing therefrom to the space at one end of the cylinder, and at the same time the other annular groove will be in registration with: the annular groove 41 in the cylinder and so in communication with the exhaust-port. The result will be that air pressure will occur in one end of the cylinder, while the other will be" freely open to the atmosphere, so that the piston will move forcibly from the end where the pressure is to the opposite end, striking the end of the cylinder and agitating the bars 10 upon which the flask rests. This movement of the cylinder will, in an obvious manner, reverse the connections, venting the side to which pressure first passed,

and admitting pressure to the oppositeside. Thus, as long as air' pressure is maintained, the piston will oscillate back 7 and forth withinthe cylinder, imparting a series of rapid shocks to the bars 10" and effectively rapping the mold. Pivoted to the forward end of the bar-s10 is a knee-plate 43 which is adapted to he struck by the knee of the operator. This has been found to be themost convenient method of operating the rapper and otherparts connected therewith. The operators hands are of course both used in manipulating the flask when the mold-sections are being separatedi The machine'usually stands on a dirt floor with The head is then swung forward and pushed backward the first time,

large quantities of loose sand, which would seriously interfere with the effective operationof a foot-lever, but it is found that with the relatively large knee-plate43, the oper- ,ator can-conveniently move it with a'slight ifor ward swing of one leg without in any wayinterfering with his hand operations on the flask or disturbing his equilibrium iin performing the relatively delicate work of handling the mold.

contacts with a valve-stem 44 and an air- The knee-plate 43 valve'45, the construction of which is shown in detail .inFig. 7, and it will need no further description except to state that its intake side is connected to a source of compressed air through a flexible pipe, and its exhaust side is connected with the intake pipe 34 of the rapper-cylinder. Thus, as

long as the operator holds the knee-plate in ltS rearward position, the r-applng continues.

During the first operation of the rapper,

the cope is drawn from the pattern-plate.

It is, however, necessary for rapid operation that there be provided some place upon which the cope, with its-sand, may be placed J during the drawing of, the pattern-plate from the drag, and this support should be such a support as will be unafiected by the agitation ofthe bars 10 in the second rapping, which is necessary for the separation of. the pattern-plate and drag. For'the purpose of furnishing this support, a spring 46 is providedion the base of the machine and" this furnishes pivotal support for a copecarrier 47 which has a long, upwardly-extending arm, reaching above the level of the fiaskguide, the upper end of which 1s turned forward and provided with an ad ustable flat plate 48. Connected to the knee-plate 43 isa link 49 connected to an arm 50 and a rock-shaft 51 at one end of which is an up ,wa-rdly extending finger 52 having a tip 53 turned at right angles to engage with the cope-carrier 47. When the knee-plate is the l nk 49 moves backward and in an obvious manner causes the cope-carrier to swing forward.

The cope-carrier is so pivoted that at the extreme'backwa'rd point of the link 49 the center of gravity of the cope-carrier moves a to the front of its pivot and the cope carrier therefore swings forward away from the tip 55 of the finger 52 until a rubber or elastic stop 54 on the cope-carrier engages a stationary part of the frame. The cope can then he stood on edge on the plate48 of the copevcarrier in a position nearly verticalbut inclining slightly backward with its upper squeezer-plate. The' kn'ee plate is then pressed at secondtimeand the pattern-plate drawm'but in this operation the cope-support is wholly unaffected by the movement edge restingagainst the forward edge of thetea tip 53 of the finger 52. Furthermore, the cope-support, being supported on a spring, is freed from the vibratory influence of the rapper. The use of the rubber stop 54 aids in protecting the cope-support against jars.

After the pattern-plate is drawn, the cope is lifted down and placed uponthe drag, the flask is unsnapped and removed from the finished mold, and the mold carried away to the floor. As a matter of practice, the operator so manipulates the mold in unsnapping it that it strikes the cope-support, pushing it a slight distance backward, enough for its center of gravity to swing back of its pivot so that gravity returns it to its .normal position out of the path of the squeeZer-plate on the next succeeding operation of the machine.

I realize that considerable variation is possible in the details of this construction and by having described the same fully, I do not intend to limit myself to the specific construction described except as pointed out in the following claims in which my intention is to set forth all the novelty inherent in the construction as broadly as the state of the art will permit.

lVhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a molding-machine, a base, pivoted arms extending upward therefrom, a head carried thereby, an operating lever carried by the head, a squeezer-plate, a rock-shaft connected to the operating lever, a pinion thereon, a countershaft revoluble about the first-mentioned shaft, an arm with an integral pinion on said countershaft, said pinion meshing with said first-named pinion, and connections between said arm and the squeezer-plate.

2. In a molding-machine, a base, a head, a shaft in the head, an operating lever secured to the shaft, a countershaft revoluble about said shaft and connected therewith by links, meshing pinions on the shaft and countershaft, an arm connected to the countershaft pinion, and a squeezer-plate connected to the arm.

3. In a molding-machine, a base, a head, a shaft in the head, an operating lever secured to the shaft, a countershaft revoluble about said shaft and connected therewith by links, meshing pinions on the shaft and counter shaft, an arm connected to the countershaft pinion, a squeezer-plate connected to the arm, and guides on the head for the squeezerplate.

4. In combination, a flask-supporting base and a movable squeezer-plate to oppose the same, a cope-support movable forward to. receive the cope, and backward out of the path of the squeeZer-plate.

5. In a molding-machine, a platform for receiving a flask, a rapping device for agitating the same, a movably mounted copesupport independent of the platform and adapted to receive the cope while the platform is being agitated for work on the drag, means for operating the rapping device, and means operating simultaneously with the rapping device for advancing the cope-support into operative position.

6. In a molding-machine, a resiliently mounted cope-support, a pneumatic rapper, and means for operating the rapper and simultaneously advancing the cope-support.

7. In a molding-machine, a resiliently mounted cope-support, a pneumatic rapper, means for operating the rapper and simultaneously advancing the cope-support, the cope-support being arranged, when moved, to advance automatically beyond the throw of its advancing means.

8. In a molding-machine, a pivoted copesupport, a pneumatic rapper, a valve for controlling the same, a movable knee-plate to operate the valve, and means operated by the knee-plate for advancing the cope-support.

9. In a molding-1nachine, a pivoted copesupport, a pneumatic rapper, a valve for controlling the same, a movable knee-plate to operate the valve, and means operated by the knee-plate for advancing the cope-support, the cope-support, when advanced, swinging past a dead center out of contact with its advancing means.

10. In a molding-machine, a pivoted copesupport, a pneumatic rapper, a valve for controlling the same, a movable knee-plate to operate the valve, means operated by the knee-plate for advancing the cope-support, the cope-support, when advanced, swinging past a dead center out of contact with its advancing means, and an elastic stop for the cope-support.

HENRY TSGHERNING. In presence of- REEVE BURTON, E. H. MORGAN.

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